of Colombo and suffragan sees of GaUe, Jaffna, '^^l^^^ J^P"^ ^Z^ *^® ^^ ^ ^^Wlt
Kandy, and Trincomali. Colombo and Jaffna are By ^^^ rtatistics t^dio^se comprises a (?ath.
entrusted to the Oblates of Maiy Immaculate, ohc population of 436,310, 25 first class parishes,
GaUe and Trincomali to the Society of Jesus, and 312 succursal panshM, and 6 vicanates /onnerly
Kandy to the Benedictines of the Congregation of supported by the state. On 13 January, 1914, the
St. Sylvester. In Ceylon there are 245 priests, both Chureh of Notre Dame de I'Epme was made a
European and native, and religious communities of ni^^or basilica.

the Sisters of the Good Shepherd, Sisters of the Ohamberlaiiiy Papalv— The title of chamberlain is
Holy Family, Franciscan nuns. Missionaries of given to certain distinguished oflBcials attached to
Mary, Little Sisters of the Poor, Sisters of Charity the private apartments or the person of the p6pe.
of Jesus and Mary, and several congregations of As at present constituted, papal chamberlains date
native sisters. The present delegate apostolic is from tne sixteenth or seventeenth century, though
Mgr. Pietro Pisani (1920), with residence at Banga- the institution goes much further back. They are
lore. members of the papal court and of the official papal

General ecclesiastical statistics for 1919 are: family or household. Their numerous duties and
churehes and chapels, 673; schools, 736, with 67,573 privileges are laid down in their letters of appoint-
pupils' seminaries, 6, with 160 students (in the ment. Papal chamberlains are divided into the
central or "Leonianum" Seminary at Kandy there following classes: (a) privy chamberlains parted-
are 81); orphan asylums, 18, with about 1,000 panii, that is, active— laymen and clerics; (b) privy
orphans; 9 European secular priests, 21 native chamberlains supernumerary— clerics only; (c)
priests, and 225 religious (Oblates, Jesuits, Bene- privy chamberlains of sword and cape partecipanti
dictines); and about 650 sisters in the various edu- — lasrmen only; (d) privy chamberlains of sword
cational and charitable institutions. and cape, who may be (1) di numero or (2) super-